Watched a bunch of shows from the hammock in the back yard yesterday while the wife was watching her shows on the regular TV. Worked flawlessly, even with a WiFi connected TiVo. I think the stream has made the iPad app a real killer app - finally it does what I thought it should have done from the beginning.

I do wish that if I paused the show on the iPad, that it would update the TiVo's show's pause point to match. That way when I came back inside I could continue watching from where I stopped on the iPad.

Sometime it's more convenient to use an iPad. Like in my case my wife wont allow me to put a full size TV in the bedroom because it's too loud and bright. But she's fine with me using my iPad on my night stand. In that case it's only like a foot from my face so the video quality looks just fine. It's also nice to watch a movie while you're on a plane or in a hotel room with a ****ty CRT TV.

Dan

Just getting to this thread and you remind me of my aunt/uncle in California. She won't let him have a TV in the bedroom either. He uses his iPad there accessing my Vulkano in Colorado every night using a BT headset and complains when it needs resetting every few months. (I don't know why he doesn't just get his own place shifting box.)

Right now, I'm debating on getting one of these devices. It would mean either getting another Premiere or moving TiVos and other equipment around the house.

Why? It's just networking. Connect the Stream anywhere on the network and it will work. Even if your TiVo is connected via Wifi it should still work well enough to support 1 stream.

Dan

My family room Tivo HD doesn't have a place-shifting device attached but has the recordings I'd like to access remotely. The Stream would be cool because of how it doesn't interfere with what is being watched on the family room TV.

Although my Vulkano is connected to the same TV as the HD, it is not connected to it at all. It is attached to the "free" Comcast SD cable box for the rare times we want OnDemand content (albeit SD) in the family room by switching inputs and remotely accessing content not available online.

My bedroom Premiere has a Slingbox attached to it and I can access everything (including protected stuff) anywhere in the world. No one cares if I take control of what is being watched on that TV so a Stream isn't needed there.

So, to use a Stream, I'd need to swap the Tivos and other devices from one room to another or upgrade the HD and lose all of the protected recordings on it. (A First World problem.)